Re: Appointment of a Transport Area Director

[Wesley Eddy <[e-mail]>]

On 3/4/2013 3:07 AM, Eggert, Lars wrote:
> There are qualified people in the industry, and that's where most of
> the past ADs have come from. In the last few years, it's been
> increasingly harder to get them to step forward, because their
> employers are reluctant to let them spend the time. I actually think
> that this is because employers realize that these skills are
> important and rare to find, and so you want these guys to work on
> internal things and not donate them to the IETF.


When the TSV ADs asked the directorate about this topic, one of
the things we heard is that transport "features" don't strongly
associate with product lines or features.  So there may also be
a case where management doesn't identify with the value in TSV,
and maybe companies aren't internally developing people as much
for TSV expertise as for other topics.

Also, sponsoring an AD does not seem to be generally feasible for
small companies or services-based companies (compared to product-
based companies) without some outside support, since otherwise
the hours spent ADing are overhead.  This further limits the pool.

-- 
Wes Eddy
MTI Systems